Experiment this new intuitive approach to watercolour without using any preliminary drawings
to paint directly with a brush on the spot. This book is an excellent tool for learning to
sketch on location. Through the no drawing first technique readers will learn to use only
watercolour and a brush to draw in notebooks make quick urban sketches keep visual journals
and create compelling outdoor urban work. Designed like a workshop on the go with more than
fifty progressive exercises this book invites you to experiment with watercolour by
translating space and movement through shapes and color into masses and values rather than
contours and strict rules of perspective. The author a theatrical scenic painter urban
sketcher and urban sketching teacher shows you how to represent the world around us. She
encourages the reader to observe the place to understand it to learn how to choose the
subject when capturing the place's soul preserving the sense of the fleetingness of the
instant described. The themes include vegetation buildings and forms of people in movement.
